At last month’s SXSW film festival in Austin one of the highlights was Ellen Page’s superb performance in the new comics superhero indie movie Super. Not stopping for a moment to bask in the stellar reviews, Page is now promoting the documentary Vanishing of the Bees and went on Bill Maher’s HBO show last week to alert people to the serious problems that Colony Collapse Disorder creates for our food supply
The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. Directors George Langworthy and Maryam Henein present not just a story about the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder, but a platform of solutions, encouraging audiences to be the change they want to see in the world.
Page told Teen Hollywood “It’s about living in a holistic way with the earth and reintegrating our lifestyles with the natural cycles … It was amazing. Anyone at all who has a passion for it can learn about it and use it in their lives in so many different ways … like peeing in a bucket and using it on your compost. Pee is an excellent source of nitrogen.”
Urine and acting like the training is expensive could be not the best way to promote Permaculture to a homemaker demographic — actually, it’s about the worst thing you can do — but at least now, thanks to Ellen “Small” Page, Permaculture was on ELLEN, the most main-stream show in America. Who can do a search analytics for “Permaculture” since this show?
Transcript and film below. Start at 1:15 – 2:52, then skip roller derby promo stuff if you want, then Permie stuff picks up again at 3:15. Watch it all if you want to see the full context.
Excerpted Transcript of Ellen Degeneres Show, interview with Ellen Page, Oct 7, 2009
ED= Ellen Degeneres, Page= Ellen Page
Degeneres talked to Page about her overwhelming fame from the movie ‘Juno’.
Page- . . . I took a little break from it because it was becoming a lot, you know, a lot at once. So, I. . .
ED- Well, that’s smart to take a break.
Page- Yeah
ED- What did ya do?
Page- I went to study permaculture design at an eco-village (Lost Valley Eco-village) in Oregon, outside of Eugene.
ED- What is permaculture? Like getting perms?
Laughter
Page- Yeah it was. . ah. . close. It’s about living more simply, and about living in a holistic way with the earth, and re-integrating our lifestyles with the natural cycles, you know. So I lived on an eco-village for about a month.
ED- Wow! That’s great.
Page- It was amazing
ED- God, that would be a really great thing for us to all be able to do. Do you think that we could?
Page- I was really lucky because I could afford to take time off work, and to pay to go there, and learn this. But any one at all, who has a passion for it, can learn about it and use it in their lives, in so many different ways. From simple ways, to more elaborate ways- like peeing in a bucket, and using it on your compost.
Laugter
Page- Pee is an excellent source of nitrogen
ED- I pee in a bucket here
Page- Yeah, yeah
Laughter
ED- I do. I try to save money in the budget where ever I can.
Laughter
Page- It’s a recession, it’s nice that your doing that.
ED- That’s what I do. . . We just bought a farm.
Page- Oh, wow!
ED- And we are trying to do the same thing, and live off the land, and do every thing we can to simplify. It’s a goal, it’s hard to do. But it would be so great if we would all start treating the earth a little nicer, and using it what it’s for, instead of abusing it.
Page- Well, you would love this, you should check this out.
ED- I would love to. I would love to
Applause. . .
They chat about Page’s new movie ‘Whip it’. . .
ED- Now you need to find a movie where you can pee in a bucket.
laughter
Page- Yeah, your really on this bucket thing
ED- I’m just sayin’. Then you try to do a movie where your encouraging people to learn all the ways to be kinder. I mean, um. yes we would get away from that, you wouldn’t show that on camera. You would be behind a partition or something. . .
laughter
Page- We would have an apparatus, yes.
ED- Yes, you wouldn’t show that. But we all know from this conversation, when that movie comes out, (whispering) she’s peeing in the bucket.
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